Desulfitobacterium metallireducens

Desulfitobacterium metallireducens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Eubacteriales
Family:	Desulfitobacteriaceae
Genus:	Desulfitobacterium
Species:	D. metallireducens
Binomial name
Desulfitobacterium metallireducens Finneran et al. 2002

Desulfitobacterium metallireducens is an anaerobic bacterium that couples growth to the reduction of metals and humic acids as well as chlorinated compounds. Its type strain is 853-15A(T) (= ATCC BAA-636(T)). It was first isolated from a uranium-contaminated aquifer sediment. ^[1]

References

1. Finneran, K. T. (2002). "Desulfitobacterium metallireducens sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium that couples growth to the reduction of metals and humic acids as well as chlorinated compounds". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (6): 1929–1935. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02121-0. ISSN   1466-5026.

Further reading

• Villemur R, Lanthier M, Beaudet R, Lépine F (September 2006). "The Desulfitobacterium genus". FEMS Microbiology Reviews . 30 (5): 706–33. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2006.00029.x . PMID   16911041.
• Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 4: Bacteria: Firmicutes, Cyanobacteria. Vol. 4. Springer, 2006.
• Kashefi, Kazem; Tor, Jason M.; Nevin, Kelly P.; Lovley, Derek R. (July 2001). "Reductive precipitation of gold by dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing Bacteria and Archaea". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 67 (7): 3275–3279. doi:10.1128/AEM.67.7.3275-3279.2001. PMC   93011 . PMID   11425752.

External links

• Type strain of Desulfitobacterium metallireducens at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase